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TIME fails in its duty as a dispassionate narrator of current affairs when it registers more preoccupation with tabloidish crime and divorce stories than with the efforts of a thinking minority to awaken the nation to the vital need for good schools and good teachers...
...which American thinking is more confused today than it is about China. During 1938, 1939, and 1940, when I was going up & down the country reporting what I had seen in China in the preceding years, including a period of five months under the Japanese Army, and trying to awaken my fellow citizens to the dangers of Japan's and our own policies at that time, most people were inclined to say "Oh, don't worry about the Japanese. You are unduly alarmed. After all, the Japanese can't even lick the Chinese, and of course...
...Anesthetist of Mattoon, Ill. (pop. 17,500) is a tall, thin man who wears a black skullcap, and carries an instrument not unlike a Flit gun. He moves through the night as nimbly and secretly as a cat, squirting a sweetish gas through bedroom windows. His victims cough, awaken with burning throats, and find themselves successively afflicted with: 1) nausea, 2) a temporary paralysis, and 3) a desire to describe their experiences in minutest detail. This latter result often enables them to overcome their symptoms with startling dispatch...
...psychology, proud Father Sidis filled scientific journals with articles about his prodigious son, wrote a book (Philistine and Genius) urging other parents to adopt his own methods of intellectual forced feeding. "To delay is a mistake and wrong to the child," he declared. "We can at that early period awaken a love of knowledge which will persist through life...
...convey to you our heartfelt gratitude for your true evidence of constructive Americanism by showing the real facts about the abominable dictatorships that we have in our own American backyard. Your recent attitude (TIME, May 15) toward the ferocious methods of the Salvadorean tyrant, Martinez, helped immensely to awaken the patriotic spirit of the Salvadorean people enabling them to regain their freedom and the sacred right to decent living. The downfall of Dictator Martinez represents the first democratic victory of the United Nations in American territory...